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100 1 _aConfucius,
_d552 BCE-480 BCE
240 1 0 _aXiao jing. English
245 1 4 _aThe book of filial duty
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aThe wisdom of the East series (London, England)
500 _aTranslation of: 孝經 (Xiaojing, or Hsiao Ching).
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_of_Filial_Piety
500 _a"Assigned partly to Confucius and partly to Tsêng Ts‘an, though it more probably belongs to a very much later date."--Giles, Chinese literature.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-04-16
508 _aBob Taylor, The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"The book of filial duty by Confucius and Zengzi" is a classical treatise on moral philosophy, specifically focused on filial piety, originating from early Chinese antiquity. It is a moral, philosophical, and didactic text, believed to have been compiled during the late Zhou dynasty and set in the context of ancient Chinese cultural norms, likely some time around the centuries before the Common Era. The core topic of the book is filial duty, which means the proper respect, obedience, and care a child should show to their parents, and how this virtue serves as the bedrock of both family cohesion and good governance in society. The book presents both philosophical discussions and vivid stories to illustrate its teachings. The first part is a dialogue in which Confucius explains to his disciple, Zengzi, that filial piety is the source of all other virtues and a fundamental aspect of personal development and social harmony. The text outlines how filial duty applies at every level of society, from the Emperor down to commoners, emphasizing respect, obedience, and responsible care for one’s parents in both life and death. The latter section, “The Twenty-four Examples of Filial Duty,” offers a series of short, memorable stories drawn from Chinese history and legend, each illustrating acts of extreme devotion and sacrifice for one’s parents. These examples include tasting medicines for ill parents, providing for them under hardship, and even supernatural events attributed to sincere filial love. Overall, the book imparts that filial piety is not just a personal virtue but the very foundation for harmonious families and, by extension, a well-ordered state. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: John Murray, 1908
653 _aFilial piety -- China
700 1 _aZengzi,
_d506 BCE-437? BCE
700 1 _aCranmer-Byng, L.
_q(Launcelot),
_d1872-1945
700 1 _aKapadia, S. A.
_q(Shaporji Aspaniarji),
_d1857-1941
700 1 _aChên, Ivan
830 0 _aThe wisdom of the East series (London, England)
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75878
999 _c116603
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